LOVeMe LOVeMeNOT

We turned to daisies looking for destiny’s voice. If we got “he loves me not”, we switched flowers, not lovers. We’ve grown but haven’t changed. We keep picking flowers to fix the unfixable.

After eight years of investigation, Beatriz Simón questions the undetectable bruises, the abuse that doesn’t leave physical marks but hurts our self-esteem, psyche, and stability. Scars that are invisible not just to others but to ourselves. We trade the emotional damage for a touch or an «I love you». The cycle, though, breaks only through our own will.

While questioning society’s inaudible discourses, LOvEmE loVeMEnOT zeroes in on the emotional misogyny that manifests as codependency and conceals pain under a misconception of love.

Through testimonies of women affected by emotional mistreatment, Beatriz shapes and appoints meaning to her work. The same culture that has told men that manipulation is a love form, has told women to ride out the darkness and hope for brighter days. Wanting us to buy into the lie that intimidating strengthens masculinity, and enduring, femininity.

LOvEmE loVeMEnOT gives a voice to the women that have been systematically silenced. The pieces in this collection are born from attempting dialogue. These artworks manifest more peace than chaos by showing a tidiness that hides, like a door, what’s behind it. They represent a society that’s afraid to get involved and becomes complicit through carelessness.

Simón doesn’t want to stop there. She wants the vindication of women that take charge of their own narrative. Her work evokes hope: after resilience, there can be redemption.